From: Marnen Laibow-Koser (marnen@marnen.org)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 16:40:43 CST
On May 4, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
[...]
> I think lots of Latin-script clever-font display trickery is
> unnecessary and less preferable to character encoding.
Each has its uses, I think. When to use which is largely a question
of whether glyph variation or character difference is at issue --
which is precisely what we are discussing here.
>
> But then I think that most of the lower-case Latin letters in the
> standard which are missing upper-case pairs should be given their
> upper case pairs.
I agree in most cases. FWIW, Cyrillic script has had a slightly
parallel situation. In older Russian grammars, when the uppercase
and lowercase alphabets are presented, one often finds lowercase ъ,
ы, and ь shown without corresponding uppercase letters, presumably
because these letters cannot begin a word in Russian and so would
never be capitalized in running text. However, the uppercase
variants are indisputably necessary for all-caps text -- no one would
dream of writing НЕФТь, ЦыГАН, or СъЕЗД for
НЕФТЬ, ЦЫГАН, and СЪЕЗД. (There are also some Central
Asian languages in which initial ы is possible.)
I do not know if the Cyrillic situation is parallel to what we are
now looking at with ß. I bring it up merely as the closest similar
situation I can think of.
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
>
Best,
-- Marnen Laibow-Koser marnen@marnen.org
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